Writing games : multicultural case studies of academic literacy practices in higher education / / Christine Pearson Casanave.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Casanave, Christine Pearson, 1944-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xx, 316 p. 24 cm.

Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. GAMES AND FRAMES: WHEN WRITING IS MORE THAN 1 -- WRITING -- A Word on Frames 1 -- Common Sense Beginnings 3 -- Framing in the Voices of Others 13 -- Assumptions: The End of the Beginning 29 -- Case Study Methodology 31 -- 2. THE BEGINNINGS OF CHANGE: LEARNING AND TEACHING 35 -- UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC LITERACY GAMES -- Clueless 35 -- Published Studies 37 -- Case Study: Communities of Practice? Game Strategies -- in Two Teachers' EAP Classes in a Japanese University 53 -- Chapter Reflections 78 -- 3. STEPPING INTO THE PROFESSION: WRITING GAMES 8 2 -- IN MASTERS PROGRAMS -- From Observer to Participant 82 -- Published Studies 84 -- Case Study: Five Masters Students Step Into the Second -- Language Education Profession 92 -- Chapter Reflections 128 -- 4. REDEFINING THE SELF: THE UNSETTLING DOCTORAL 13 4 -- PROGRAM GAME -- From Clarity to Confusion 134 -- Published Studies 136 -- Case Study: Virginia: Not Her Kind of Game 149 -- Chapter Reflections 176 -- 5. JUGGLING AND BALANCING GAMES OF BILINGUAL FACULTY 17 8 -- Personal Reflections on Multilingualism 178 -- Published Studies 181 -- Case Study: The Juggling Games of Bilingual Faculty 191 -- Chapter Reflections 216 -- 6. BENDING THE RULES 220 -- Conforming and Resisting 220 -- Published Studies 225 -- Case Study: Author-Editor Games in the Construction -- of Unconventional Textual Identities 233 -- The Authors 235 -- Issues 238 -- Chapter Reflections 254 -- 7. THE PARADOXICAL EFFORT AFTER COHERENCE IN 256 -- ACADEMIC WRIING GAMES -- Games, Transitions, and Identity Revisited 260 -- Effort After Coherence 265 -- The End and the Continuation 279.